Newsmaker of the Week

Jimmy Blewett won last Saturday’s Tour Modified Turkey Derby at Wall Stadium, in what can best be described as a crowd-pleasing win. Blewett has raced at Wall Stadium on and off for over 20 years and had never failed to win at least one feature. He was down to his last shot at it in the Derby. Driving a new …

In a season in which he came of age Andrew Krause drove the race of his career Saturday afternoon at Wall Stadium. The 2022 Wall Modified track champion stalked leader Jimmy Blewett relentlessly before making a daring pass, then never flinched as the pair ran wheel to wheel. Krause took the lead, then ran out the laps, beating the man …

Brent Marks ended his best season yet as a 410 Sprint Car driver Saturday when, at BAPS Motor Speedway, he took the checkered flag in the final 410 Sprint race of the 2021 Central Pennsylvania season. That was Marks’ 14th win of 2021 and those wins came at eight different speedways. Consistency was part of ‘Marks Magic’ in 2021 with top …

Kyle Larson, whose dirt track rootedness and current practice of racing in his favored element whenever he can, won the NASCAR Cup Series finale Sunday afternoon at Phoenix Raceway and in so doing earned his first career NASCAR Cup title. What were the odds that a young man with a dirt track soul, a hero to tens of thousands of dirt …

At the final race of the Short Track Super Series South Region and the Georgetown Speedway seasons this past Saturday, Modified driver Mike Mahaney was at the threshold of winning the first Series championship of his career. While his future brother-in-law Billy Pauch, Jr. blitzed the field to win the STSS race, Mahaney struggled with a car that simply lacked …

Matt Sheppard’s record of over 420 career victories had one glaring omission prior to Sunday night. Sheppard had never won Orange County Fair Speedway’s Eastern States 200. He has now, after besting Stewart Friesen in a spellbinding battle between two heavyweights, mesmerizing the big crowd. They ran wheel to wheel, ducked in and out of traffic, lap after lap. But …

With $50,000 on the line Saturday night at Port Royal Speedway in the Short Track Super Series Speed Showcase 200, Stewart Friesen, a racer who is use to winning the richest races, did it again. This time, he executed with no surprises, experienced no difficulties. He just planned a smart race strategy that was easy to implement with a perfectly …

Super DIRT Week 2021 will be forever remembered as ‘Super Mat Week’. How could it be noted as anything else? Mat Williamson won the Super DIRT Week 200 for Big Blocks, won the Super DIRT Series Big Block opener Tuesday at Brewerton, and claimed back to back DIRTcar 358 Series races at Weedsport and Brewerton. The only blemish on Williamson’s week? A second …

The Williams Grove National Open is among the crown jewels in 410 Sprint racing. It’s one race that can make a 410 racer’s career complete if they win it, or stands out among the missing if they don’t. On Saturday, Carson Macedo ‘completed his career’, figuratively of course, by taking down the win in front of the partisan PA Posse fans …

Andy Jankowiak’s stunning sweep of the Race Of Champions Weekend at Lake Erie Speedway will go down in the proud 71 year history of the Race Of Champions as one of the all time great triumphs. Lake Erie Speedway is one of several race tracks in the popular Jankowiak’s backyard and the RoC itself is a race Andy’s late father …